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The Milky Way

The Milky Way

1969 / 105min / 35mm

DIRECTOR: LUIS BUñUEL

CAST: PAUL FRANKEUR, LAURENT TERZIEFF, ALAIN CUNY, EDITH SCOB

The Catholic Church was long a favorite target of Buñuel’s, but never did it receive such a thorough and extended drubbing as in this sacrilege-run-amok, Dada satire. On their way to the holy city of Santiago, two vagabond-pilgrims slip through centuries of saints, sinners, and heretics. Choose your own blasphemy: there’s the pope facing a firing squad, nuns performing a crucifixion, and a seductive Satan in the form of Pierre Clémenti.